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Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by sweettinz20(m): 11:14am On Jan 13, 2016
GodMode:


The war was against northerners not intra-tribal..
it is intra tribal war, the fulani were defeated,get yoiur facts well
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by proxillin(m): 11:17am On Jan 13, 2016
B69U:
The entire Yoruba tribe should be grateful, they have a long history of tribalism and subsequent tribal wars.


Yorubas the most tribalistic Nigerians should say no to tribalism and tribal wars.


Thats why we are saying no to biafra
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by spiralwedge(m): 11:19am On Jan 13, 2016
She died of tuberculosis at age 37 in Portugal. She was married to Davis and had 3 children. The Bonetta-Davis descendants are the Davis of Lagos.
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by Nobody: 11:27am On Jan 13, 2016
Stevebamdex:


Hee smiley nigeria I hail thee,perhaps if the story was changed and it says she was enslaved and died as a slave.
am quiet sure you would never say that she is ur great grandma.. sad sad weldone
suffer head oo no get family..bt success get fada,moda,sista,broda, uncle.. *inOsofiaINLondon'svoice*
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by Nobody: 11:29am On Jan 13, 2016
Khd95:
u mean she is my great grand inlawtonguesmileywink
grin
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by Nobody: 11:30am On Jan 13, 2016
Cyojunior:




Can u pls sensor dat ua profile pix a little brighter? ;d
okay wait fr me..ayam cumin
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by Cyojunior(m): 11:36am On Jan 13, 2016
naughtynaughty:
okay wait fr me..ayam cumin
Can wait pls !!!!
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by RotorMade: 11:42am On Jan 13, 2016
She was the wife of a Rich Yoruba Man, a Royal naval officer and philanthropist..Yoruba representing since the ages.. Proud to be a Yoruba boy

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Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by suwalee(f): 11:44am On Jan 13, 2016
opeyemiieblog:
Lady Sara Forbes Bonetta (1843-1880) was a Yoruba Egbado Omoba who was orphaned in
intertribal warfare, sold into slavery, and in a
remarkable twist of events, was liberated from enslavement, and became a goddaughter to
Queen of England, Queen Victoria.


http://www.praizeblog.com/2016/01/meet-yoruba-slave-who-became.html?m=0#more



cc lalasticlala. ishilove
who she epp biko
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by GodMode: 11:50am On Jan 13, 2016
sweettinz20:
it is intra tribal war, the fulani were defeated,get yoiur facts well

I quoted B69U not u Is fulani tribe part of yoruba tribe The war was not intra tribal.

It was inter tribal.
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by Nobody: 12:33pm On Jan 13, 2016
satelliteDISH:
Representing Nigerian women. Thumbs up.

As a slave?

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Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by Dbboy(m): 12:35pm On Jan 13, 2016
satelliteDISH:
Representing Nigerian women. Thumbs up.

no, not my people, we dont celebrate being slave.
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by jantavanta(m): 1:43pm On Jan 13, 2016
Queen Victoria may appear just being nice to have adopted an African slave girl, but take another look at the coin of the grandfather of Queen Victoria: King George III



http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-penny-issued-by-king-george-iii-of-england-in-1792/
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by yommyuk: 2:53pm On Jan 13, 2016
opeyemiieblog:
Lady Sara Forbes Bonetta (1843-1880) was a Yoruba Egbado Omoba who was orphaned in
intertribal warfare, sold into slavery, and in a
remarkable twist of events, was liberated from enslavement, and became a goddaughter to
Queen of England, Queen Victoria.


http://www.praizeblog.com/2016/01/meet-yoruba-slave-who-became.html?m=0#more



cc lalasticlala. ishilove

I am more interested in what happen to her in her old age and her descendants. Where are her descendants? Do they still roll in the royal circle?
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by Lushore1: 3:21pm On Jan 13, 2016
Lady [/b]Sara Forbes Bonetta (1843 – 15 August 1880) was a West African Egbado Omoba who was orphaned in intertribal warfare, sold into slavery, and in a remarkable twist of events, was liberated from enslavement, and became a goddaughter to Queen Victoria. She was married to Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, the wealthy Victorian Lagos philanthropist.

[b]Early life


Originally named "Aina", Sara was born in 1843 at Oke-Odan, an Egbado village. In 1848, Oke-Odan was raided by a Dahomean army; during the attack Sara lost her parents and ended up in the court of King Ghezo as a slave. Intended by her Dahomeyan captors to be a human sacrifice, she was rescued by Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the Royal Navy, who convinced King Ghezo of Dahomey to give her to Queen Victoria; "She would be a present from the King of the Blacks to the Queen of the Whites," Forbes wrote later. He named her Sara Forbes Bonetta, Bonetta after his ship the HMS Bonetta. Victoria was impressed by the young princess's exceptional intelligence, and had Sara raised as her goddaughter in the British middle class. In 1851 Sara gained a long-lasting cough, believed to be caused by the climate of Great Britain. She was sent to school in Africa in May of that year, at the age of eight, but was unhappy and returned to England in 1855 at the age of 12. In January 1862 she was invited to and attended the wedding of the daughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Alice.

Marriage and children

She was later sanctioned by the Queen to marry Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies at St Nicholas' Church in Brighton in August 1862, after a period that was to be spent in the town in preparation for the wedding. During her subsequent time in Brighton, she lived at 17 Clifton Hill in the Montpelier area. Captain Davies was a Yoruba businessman of considerable wealth and the couple moved back to their native Africa after their wedding where they had three children: Victoria Davies (1863), Arthur Davies (1871), and Stella (1873). Sarah Bonetta continued to enjoy a close relationship with Queen Victoria such that she and Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther were the only Lagos indigenes under standing order by the Royal Navy to evacuate in the event of an uprising in Lagos. Victoria Davis was also goddaughter of the Queen of the British Empire. Victoria Matilda Davies married the successful Lagos doctor John K. Randle. A great many of both her and her daughter's descendants now live in England and Sierra Leone, while a separate group of them, the aristocratic Randle family of Lagos, remains prominent in contemporary Nigeria.

Death

Sarah Forbes Bonetta died on 15 August 1880 of tuberculosis in Funchal, the capital of Madeira, a Portuguese island. Her husband Captain Davies erected an over eight-foot-high granite obelisk-shaped monument in memory of Sarah Forbes Bonetta at Ijon in Western Lagos, where he started a cocoa farm. The inscription on the obelisk reads:

IN MEMORY OF PRINCESS SARAH FORBES BONETTA

WIFE OF THE HON J.P.L. DAVIES WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT MADEIRA AUGUST 15TH 1880
AGED 37 YEARS




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Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by dhummystecah(f): 3:33pm On Jan 13, 2016
kehnton:


what's the book of negros about please?
It is kind of a series based on a historical book.

*Summary
12 years old Aminata was kidnapped from a village in West Africa during the American Revolution. She was sold into slavery along with other captives, she was taken to South Carolina. She worked on a plantation there. She fell in love and married Chekura (her fellow slave) despite the advances from her master. Later on she gave birth to a baby girl, the jealous master sold her baby. The couple was heartbroken. An inspector took pity on her and bought her from the master. She escaped from him with the help of her friend (Luscious from Empire) and went to a negro town, her husband later joined her there. Together they faced the challenges in her quest to return to Africa.

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Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by Nobody: 3:37pm On Jan 13, 2016
Beautiful woman but this isn't really anything to celebrate. She should have never been sold into slavery by her own people.
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by Nobody: 3:38pm On Jan 13, 2016
safzor:
Hmmm...yoruba. And slavery !!

Yep, no ibo was ever sold into slavery. Ostrich will be jealous.

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Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by bigfrancis21: 4:13pm On Jan 13, 2016
What is this supposed to be about? A celebration of slavery or what?
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by kehnton(m): 4:33pm On Jan 13, 2016
dhummystecah:
It is kind of a series based on a historical book.

*Summary
12 years old Aminata was kidnapped from a village in West Africa during the American Revolution. She was sold into slavery along with other captives, she was taken to South Carolina. She worked on a plantation there. She fell in love and married Chekura (her fellow slave) despite the advances from her master. Later on she gave birth to a baby girl, the jealous master sold her baby. The couple was heartbroken. An inspector took pity on her and bought her from the master. She escaped from him with the help of her friend (Luscious from Empire) and went to a negro town, her husband later joined her there. Together they faced the challenges in her quest to return to Africa.

thank you!
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by Nobody: 5:42pm On Jan 13, 2016
ogbongenet:
product of broken condom..tribalist
I'll just pass.
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by MABrown: 5:56pm On Jan 13, 2016
She was NOT A SLAVE. She was ENSLAVED. Big difference.

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Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by Seventeen(f): 7:04pm On Jan 13, 2016
kehnton:


what's the book of negros about please?
its a wonderful movie... U shuld watch it.

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Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by Seventeen(f): 7:39pm On Jan 13, 2016
dhummystecah:
It is kind of a series based on a historical book.

*Summary
12 years old Aminata was kidnapped from a village in West Africa during the American Revolution. She was sold into slavery along with other captives, she was taken to South Carolina. She worked on a plantation there. She fell in love and married Chekura (her fellow slave) despite the advances from her master. Later on she gave birth to a baby girl, the jealous master sold her baby. The couple was heartbroken. An inspector took pity on her and bought her from the master. She escaped from him with the help of her friend (Luscious from Empire) and went to a negro town, her husband later joined her there. Together they faced the challenges in her quest to return to Africa.
smileythat guy wasnt Lucious oo, though the look kind of alike.. That was Cuba Gooding Jnr.. Lucious real name is Terrence Howard. smiley
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by dhummystecah(f): 6:23am On Jan 14, 2016
Seventeen:
smileythat guy wasnt Lucious oo, though the look kind of alike.. That was Cuba Gooding Jnr.. Lucious real name is Terrence Howard. smiley
Wow, I didn't even know.
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by dhummystecah(f): 6:24am On Jan 14, 2016
kehnton:


thank you!
pleasure. I just learnt that Aminata's friend is not luscious, just a look-alike.
Re: Lady Sara Forbes The Yoruba Slave Who Became Goddaughter To The Queen Of England by sweettinz20(m): 8:17am On Jan 15, 2016
GodMode:


I quoted B69U not u Is fulani tribe part of yoruba tribe The war was not intra tribal.

It was inter tribal.
u said we fought the north that was a separate war after the inter tribal had been fought, the fulani tried invading and conquering yoruba land like they did with other northerners but were defeated at illorin

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